Month: October 2014

Young Milton: The Emerging Author, 1620-1642 (Oxford University Press), ed. Edward Jones, to which Faculty members Christopher Tilmouth and Andrew Zurcher both contributed chapters, has won the Milton Society of America’s Irene Samuel Memorial Award for 2013.

Thursday 23 October 2014 10AM to 5PM Drama Studio, Faculty of English Full Programme Dr Gavin Alexander leads a group of lecturers from the Faculty of English who will read aloud Shakespeare’s complete poetry to mark the 450th anniversary of his birth. Shakespeare’s plays are performed every day throughout the world. His poems are read […]

Resounding Dylan Thomas Saturday 11 October 2014 – Faculty of​​ English 2014 marks the centenary of Dylan Thomas’s birth. As such, it provides an ideal opportunity to reevaluate a body of work that has for too long precluded scholarly consensus. The sticking point has always been a biographical one. Thomas’s untimely death in New York in 1953 […]